“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.” WorldWayYearsBookHardHandsCareTodayRememberThreeNextChanceExistenceTakenPoetReaderSkillsMouthsTownsLuckOne WayReviewsRomeThree YearsSmall TownFellowshipPrintedOld DaysLuck And SkillPrinted Books Author:Randall Jarrell
“Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.” TimeMemoriesChanceSonPoetFameHeirs Book:My Study Windows Source: My Study Windows
“It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.” IfsWorldWritingDifficultChancePoetIdealsVery GoodAssOur WorldLimbsChances AreBest Poet Author:Sam Hamill
“The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.” PeopleCommunityChanceConditionsPoetAtmosphereGangMessiahMintMinneapolis Author:Nikki Jean
“Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.” KindBookChanceWrittenPoetRedEarsMy FavoriteDialogueDragonsPoeticGet RealChances Are Author:Bryan Fuller
“I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.” PeopleKnowsWantMindChancePoet Author:Christina Aguilera